MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami announced on Friday that a physician agreed to a $45 million settlement in a Medicare fraud case.
Prosecutors described Dr. Ameet Vohra as one of the nation’s largest providers of bedside specialty wound care for nursing home patients.
Investigators accused Vohra, the owner of Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, of engaging in “a nationwide scheme to bill Medicare” for surgical procedures that “were either not medically necessary or had not been performed.”
Vohra allegedly “pressured, trained, and provided financial incentives” for physicians and “programmed its electronic health record and billing software to ensure that Medicare was always billed for the higher-reimbursed surgical excisional procedure and to create false medical record documentation to support the scheme,” according to the prosecutor’s lawsuit.
Under the settlement, Vohra will enter into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services and agreed to “develop and maintain a compliance program, implement a risk assessment process and hire an independent review organization” to “review its claims and health information technology systems,” according to prosecutors.
Federal investigators asked anyone with information about fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement to call the Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-447-8477.
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